Tuesday morning feel good stories
Amy sends us a link from Baytown, Texas;
Police believe [18-year-old Jalen] Cole and an accomplice tried to break into an apartment when someone inside opened fire on them. Gunshots were exchanged as the suspects tried to get away, but Cole was wounded and died at the scene.
A bullet went through the wall of the home and shot a 44-year-old neighbor. He was airlifted to a hospital in Houston for surgery.
The investigation is on-going.
From Blytheville, Arkansas;
Police say a person who tried to rob a pizza business in northeast Arkansas was fatally shot.
Blytheville Police Capt. Scott Adams said the person was shot late Sunday at a Domino’s Pizza.
Adams said an employee of the business shot the person during the attempted robbery.
It was about 10:30 p.m. when the resident heard someone pounding on his door at the Chestnut Hills apartments in the 200 block of 21st Avenue SW.
He looked out the window and saw a man holding what appeared to be a gun, so he armed himself.
The resident didn’t fire until the intruder forced his way into the apartment, police said.
The intruder fled in a vehicle before police arrived.
Officers notified local hospitals to be on the lookout for a man coming in with a gunshot wound, a routine procedure in that type of incident.
Shortly afterward, a 52-year-old man sought treatment at Good Samaritan Hospital for a gunshot wound. He’s expected to survive his injury.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Death over a Dominos pizza? What a poor choice. At least get you some Papa Johns on the way to the grave.
His choice of topping included extra lead.
Three incidents of thuggery, 2 bad guys shot dead, 1 wounded. Not what I would call a successful venture.
I’m not sure, but I think Domino’s has the same policy that Seven Eleven stores do, and if that’s the case, then the Domino’s employee just lost his job.
But, maybe somebody else will quickly hire him, since he shot a criminal.
The bullet going through the wall and wounding a neighbor reminds me of the Provo, Utah Police Department many years ago, when I was a student at Brigham Young University.
It was precisely for that reason, i.e., being in a city with lots of people, that Provo police officers were forbidden from using anything other than .38 caliber ammunition in their .357 magnum revolvers, lest the bullet go through the criminal and continue its flight to hit innocent bystanders.
Of course, that was many years ago, and I don’t think any police department uses revolvers anymore, as everybody has switched to 9mm automatics.
As for myself, to this day, I still do wear a vintage Ruger “Security Six” .357 magnum service revolver everywhere I go, and frankly, I hope I never have to use it.
POST SCRIPT:
My Ruger “Security Six” .357 magnum service revolver is loaded with .357 magnum ammunition.
This is the West, and here in these mountains, we have grizzly bears, mountain lions, and moose.
I might feel ok about a .357 mag vs a cougar.
Not enough boom in any practical hand cannon for moose and griz.
I remember reading (decades ago) in some outdoors mag about some guy carrying a .44 mag who shot a black bear who was coming in his cabin door, at point-blank range, and the bear didn’t notice.
The author wrote of his astonishment that the .44 didn’t knock that bear out the door. I remember my astonishment that the author of an article in an outdoor magazine would think that a .44 mag would knock a 600 lb bear anywhere.
600 pound blackie is HUGE. That being said, the guy who founded MagnaPort, Larry Kelly, made it a point to take every possible major big game animal on the planet with a MagnaPorted Super Blackhawk (.44 magnum.) The picture of him next to the barn on which the brown bear’s skin was mounted is a classic – he was a BIG man and that bearskin was easily twice his size.
At least one man has stabbed a griz to death with a hunting knife. This was in the last ten years, I think. Man learned to survive against animals a lot bigger than a modern bear, long before guns we’re invented.
…were…
Jalen and “Jamal”…otherwise, bright futures awaited them..
We’ll have to wait for Claw to give us the Pull A Name Out of The Alphabet Scrabble Score, for those playing the home version.
As per Sparks’ request, here are today’s scores for those playing Name Scrabble (Home Version):
Jalen Cole – Base score 18, but since he was DRT, the score is tripled to 54.
The partner in crime, (who is still in the wind) Jeremy Jamal Wheaton Ardion rates a basic score of 52 until he is apprehended and accidentally falls off a curb a half dozen times and becomes a WRT or DRT.
Thanks to all for playing today’s game.